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Epytoma Ioa[n]nis de Mo[n]te Regio in Almagestu[m] Ptolomei (1496)

Author: Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476; Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Almagest; Abiosi, Giovanni, 15th cent; Peurbach, Georg von, 1423-1461; Grossch, Caspar, 15th cent; Roemer, Stephanus, 15th cent; Burndy Library, donor. DSI
Subject: Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476; Astronomy; Mathematics, Greek
Publisher: [Venice : Johannes Hamman]
Year: 1496
Possible copyright status: Not in copyright
Language: Latin
Call number: 39088007520869
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: smithsonian

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Woodcut title (leaf a1 recto)

The Epitoma was begun by Georg von Peurbach and finished by Regiomontanus; the editors for this edition were Giovanni Abiosi, Caspar Grossch and Stephanus Roemer

Imprint from Goff

Incipit (leaf a2 recto) reads: Cl. Ptolemei Alexandrini Astronomo[rum] principis [Is megalin sintaxin] id est In magnam constructione[m]

Colophon (leaf p7 verso) reads: Explicit Magne compositionis astronomicon epitoma .... Opera quoq[ue] [et] arte impressionis mirifica viri solertis Iohannis Ha[m]man de Landoia, dictus Hertzog, felicibus astris expletum. ... In hemispherio Ueneto, anno salutis 1496 currente, pridie calen[das] Septembris Uenetijs ..

"Some copies contain the text of a 2-leaf letter of Johannes Baptista Abiosus, dated 15 Aug. 1496, and inserted between a1 and a2" --Goff; this letter not present in Dibner library copy

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸/⁶ o⁶ p⁸

Leaves printed on both sides; 48-49 lines per page

Final leaf (p8) is blank; wanting in Dibner Library copy

Initials; printer's device on leaf p7 verso

Woodcut ill. of Ptolemy, Regiomontanus and an armillary sphere, inside an ornamental border, on leaf a3 verso; "The xylographic portrait of Regiomontanus is considered authentic" --Heralds of science

Goff

Hain-Copinger

Polain

Proctor

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

Leaf a3 is reversed and misbound before leaf a2

Extensive ms. annotations with mathematical diagrams throughout, in an old hand

Excised leaf from an old printed ecclesiastical text used as front free endpaper

Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

Old limp vellum binding; in modern green drop-back box

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